Currently I've learnt the F.U.N song on ukulele from Spongebob. Worth it? Yes. Needed? No. Hotel? Trivago.
Imperfect Lover - Chapter 11 - Cheers
Gray stood outside Lucy's front door. He'd stepped out for a moment after she'd drunkenly to Natsu to get him to come over and look after her - he was shocked at her reasons and even more shocked that Juvia had said that no one in their little girl group knew about it. Lucy was afraid that Natsu would stop spending time with her if his attention was on other girls. He remembered Lucy sobbing not even half an hour ago: 'he'll like some other girl and I'll get jealous and he'll leave just like Dan did.'
Juvia had swore him to secrecy, but he couldn't watch as Lucy became twisted and conflicted inside herself over her own feelings and feelings that Natsu, even though unaware of it, had caused her to feel. He rubbed his hands together to warm them from the bitter cold night air. Tiredly, he watched the gate and eventually saw Natsu jog through it. The salmon haired man's warm breath mingled with the cold air. Gray nodded his head in acknowledgement while staring at Natsu's confused face.
"I thought Lucy said no one was coming over?" Natsu questioned, scratching the right side of his head with his left hand, then wiping the sweat from his forehead with it.
"She wasn't." Gray coughed a little to clear his throat. "She's afraid you'll ditch her for some other girl."
Staring at Gray with a straight face, Natsu shrugged. "Guess I'll have to wait on the dating front then. I mean it's not like I was planning to date them anyways."
Gray and Natsu chuckled, then Gray shifted to the side a little to allow Natsu to lean against the wall with him. "You can't be serious? Ditching dating for Lucy just so she won't get upset or hurt? You're more of an idiot than I thought."
"What about you?" Natsu smirked while laughing a little. "You had loads of girls want you because you're the top swimmer under 21 in the country, but you stopped hanging out with them for Juvia?"
Gray blushed quite hard, he began coughing loudly from shock, then spoke after he'd settled his self down. "Juvia is a nice girl, not like the ones that throw themselves over me."
"She does that literally everyday?" Natsu laughed. "Or have we been living in two different dimensions?"
"Shut up." Gray muttered under his breath with some profanity after it. "I like her, but she's too clingy to date right now, she needs to calm down a bit before I consider it."
Natsu was about to speak again, but was interrupted by the front door of Lucy's home opening and a dark blue head of hair popping out. She smiled before bouncing over to Gray and grabbing hold of his arm. Natsu pointed while mouthing 'see, told you so' and smiling at Juvia. Natsu left the wall and began walking into the house, Gray and Juvia following shortly behind him. He looked around, but found Lucy huddled in a blanket on the couch, with tortilla chips and spicy dip, and watching the not cartoon version of Beauty and The Beast.
"Mind if I join?" Natsu asked, but quickly stole Lucy's blanket and began eating her snacks. "Have you sobered up a bit?"
Lucy nodded, secretly shuffling closer to Natsu's warmth, looking at Gray and Juvia. "Sorry I lied to you. Must have wanted you to come join in on the fun."
Natsu smiled lightly, knowing it was a lie. "It's fine. The party wasn't that good anyways. There was no one pretty there."
Lucy muttered a smiple 'oh' before taking back her snacks and beginning to eat them slowly as the movie played. It wasn't even an hour into it when Juvia and Lucy both went out like lights and were sleeping for the night. Gray wasn't having much trouble with moving Juvia into a comfy position, but Natsu - oh boy - was he having trouble. Lucy wouldn't stop squirming. She ended up hitting him in the face three times before Gray and Natsu worked together to take her to her bedroom upstairs.
"How is it so hard to take one blonde upstairs!" Gray whisper-yelled at Natsu, who had hold of Lucy's feet.
"It's never been this hard before, let me tell you." Natsu said with wide eyes and sweat coming down his face.
"Seriously? You want to talk about having sex with blondes here?" Gray questioned, slightly annoyed as he tried opening Lucy's door with his elbow.
"No!" Natsu whispered back, feeling his hands slipping from around Lucy's legs. "My ex was a blonde - maybe. She kept dying her hair not really sure what her original colour was."
Gray eventually got the door open. Quickly, Natsu and Gray moved in sync and placed Lucy on her bed. Gray put his hands on his thighs, then he shook his head and left out of Lucy's room. This left Natsu to out Lucy into bed. He took a deep breath in and out, then another one just to be safe, before moving Lucy to one side of the bed and opening the blanket. He rolled her gently into the bed, putting the blanket over her and than looked at her sleeping face before he left.
"Sorry..." Lucy mumbled in her sleep causing Natsu to smile. "Jealous... other girls..."
Natsu breathed in deeply, nodding his head to himself, then left closing the door lightly behind him. He came downstairs to find Gray opening two beers that he had pulled out of a box on the side. He gestured a beer towards Natsu, to which Natsu nodded yes to, then sat down at the counter in Lucy's kitchen. Gray placed it beside Natsu while sitting down next to him.
Natsu was about to take a swig, but then stopped himself. He looked to Gray and pulled the bottle away from Gray's lips before he could drink it. "A toast? To Lucy."
Gray laughed loudly, but only for a few seconds. He raised his beer, as did Natsu. "To Lucy." Gray said.
"May she never drink again in her life." Natsu laughed while putting the bottle to his lips and tilting it up.
"I'll drink to that." The two men laughed while drinking.
They talked for a couple hours after that, just about some basic things, then some teasing on Natsu's part towards Gray and his feelings towards Juvia. Gray retaliated, claiming that Natsu loved Lucy and how he'd abstain for her. They kept the noise to a minimum, afraid of waking up the two sleeping girls, but that didn't stop them from fighting and having drinking contests till they were both slightly drunk and then deciding to sleep for the night.